Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Powell is back after a year's illness with his quizzical eyebrows, scotch and sodas, and gift for repartee quite intact. Unhappily, Dashfell Hammett's plot gives Mr. Powell somewhat less support than his hospital bed and consequently the film fails to live up to the previous Thin Man standard. However, Myrna Loy and Asta are around too Lot to mention Nick Charles, Jr. and they combine their talents with a capable cast to create a better than average photoplay...
Sarah Lawrence College was released three years ago from the protective custody of Vassar's President Henry Noble McCracken (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936), its eight-year-old feet set firmly on the path of progressive education. Ever since then, the college has wanted to record in film a "sustained visual explanation" of itself. Last week the wish was fact...
...freshman she pulls on her sweater, rolls up her sleeves, and plunges in to college professors whenever she feels the need of tutelage (there are discussion groups, no lectures, no textbooks). Steadily, humorlessly, the film photographs Joan under the watchful eye of her adviser, or "Don"; Joan on her self-chosen "project"; Joan earnestly typing in a barebacked bathing suit while her friends loll, sunbathe; Joan aiming a camera at two naked tots at the nursery school provided by Sarah Lawrence for students of Child Psychology, Personality Development, and The Family. Like Joan, other student actresses find their texts outside...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...
Perhaps expectations about this picture have run so high that the eventual product would have to be an anti-climax, no matter how good it was. It does seem, however, that there are more potentialities in the film than have been realized...